Zathras and the great machine transcend realities time and space. Zathras is probably the most important creature that exists.

The Power of Love is a little cheesy especially to solve quantum tunnel effects.

Since we are talking about parallel dimensions i wonder how that compares to third space, hyper space, and quantum space.

The joke about lost in space being something they couldnt say was a little oddly meta.

This feels super low budget, only a few actors in any scene, all cgi, no real sets.

The first story is introducing god and the devil, but its a weird fit since we have the vorlon and shadows in those relative positions, but this is going full god and devil in addition to vorlons and shadows. Felt forced

The second tale about the young prince, was nice, hopeful. Good to see sheradon returning to the station.

Interdimensional psychic space crabs!

Normal space, Hyper Space, Third Space… Many dimensions to explore for FTL travel purposes, not all of them will have space crabs that the vorlons are ashamed of.

The start of the Earth Membari war, the first hint of the Vorlons… the Shadows pestering Londo

The tragedy of losing the peace talks

Who was the prisioner referred to by Londo in the last scene?

This feels like a one-shot self-contained story, some billion year old threat comes, there is a client race doing the dirty work of some mystery race. We have a ranger ship overcome the odds.

This was a pilot for a possible series that never got picked up, pity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOizNEV5WNw

Season was canceled half way through, due to some TNT executive fight. They wanted more sex appeal in the show, and it shows a few times.

A bunch of filler episodes in the 13 episode season, kinda a waste. A totally new cast, took some time to get used to them, but they do grow on me. The format changed to be more episodic wandering starship with lots of away sets. Must have been more expensive then a babylon 5 episode.

The themes of these season are Techno Mages, Cosmic Horror, Nano Machines and Central control.

The plague infecting earth isn’t a biological virus, but nano-machines with central control. We run into a techno mange nano machine plague as well, which gets taken out by finding the central computer.

I think this could have been a good show with tighter plots, and more focus on the arcs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW6SReoSpQU

Out favorite shadow’s of shadows the Drazi strike out for symbolic revenge and attempt to destroy the earth on the 5th anniversary of Liberation day over the shadows.

The shadow cloud that would wrap a planet in a net of nuclear missile firing stations was destroyed by the new mega destroyers

As a consolation prize the Drazi drop a misconfigured plague on the planet that will kill everyone in 5 years.

This is all setup, no payoff… I think its to establish the premise for the TV series Crusade.

As far as planet killers go, relativistic rocks going through hyperspace could destroy a planet without all the fuss… or jumping into the center of a planet. The Shadow Net is way overdramatic.

Wow, the graphics look surprisingly clean, but very outdated!

Hahah, “Earth is some lost Centauri Tribe Making us distant relatives”

Vir is my spirit animal

League of Non-Aligned worlds, ohh yeah Space UN, but without the static veto security council

I do not like Santiago. I’ve always thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin, and his vice president has several. This, to me, is not a good combination.

The big mcguffin for episode 1 was the technical advisor for the raiders had archived communication between narn high command and the invasion fleet verifying the invasion was unprovoked. That seems like a wild operational choice, no compartmentalization for a sensitive operation.

PsyCore is super evil; Join us; Prison; or Lobotomy drugs.

Garabalis second favorite thing in the universe is loonytoons and not sex, as was so heavily hinted at. No way this joke setup could happen anymore

Over this season we see earth fall in with the secret police, who are different than the psycorps. Earth force is a very dangerous place for good people to be now.

The shadows and vorlons have revealed themselves as agents of good and evil respectively.

Lando is well onto the path of space Khan, naked hunger for expansionist empire. Right now he is somewhat reluctant, but when pressed uses grand anger as a shield. He is in the backseat, but he is responsible, and its tearing him apart. Who is to say where the shadows have also influenced.

We end the season with a Earth Centauri non-aggression pact, and Centurian expansionism into all of its neighbors.

The membari have been very quiet this season.

The purpose of Babylon 4 and its space jumping haven’t been hinted at.

What will happen to the vorlon timelord jack the ripper now?

Overall - The season has good intrigue setup, I’m now emotionally invested. I’d say less filler in this season, but still quite high maybe 30% totally B plot episodes.

The pieces are on the chess board now!

The PsyCorps is your friend, trust the PsyCorps.

Organic Machines! Hints of the vorlon

Organic Terminator! Protect!

Death by committee, the terminators would kill anything that isn’t the perfect being… seems they never QA tested their programming

When you become obsessed with an enemy, you become the enemy

The wayland yutani corporation would really fit right in this universe.

Be seeing you! Prisoner callback (again! first time was checkoff)